The amendment was to reduce the water recovery target by 70 gigalitres in the Northern Basin and while it was adopted by the Coalition government, the Greens brought a blocking motion, which was backed by Labor and Nick Xenophon Team.

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But among all the politics, there are people who’s lives and livelihoods are impacted with each vote, hanging decision and change made in Parliament House.

These are some of those faces:

‘We feel completely neglected by the people who should have stood up for us’

Balonne Shire Deputy Mayor Fiona Gasky

Balonne Shire Deputy Mayor Fiona Gasky has come up swinging after the vote saying it showed a blatant “absolute ignorance” on behalf of the politicians behind it.

“To leave our communities in this situation. So much uncertainty, jobs lost – it is just – you cannot fathom it, you wouldn’t read about it,” she said.

“We’re shocked – we can’t believe it. It’s hard to plan for the future now. Where does it leave us? How is the government going to leverage infrastructure projects if the NBR isn’t there? Is all of that consultation, all of the time that we put into the MDBA all meaningless?,” she said.

“I guess we just don’t know where we stand anymore, and we feel completely neglected by the people who should have stood up for us who have not. They have absolutely left us in the lurch.”

Bracing for a post-Basin Plan world: What happens next?

Rob Houghton, a Gogeldrie grower, is one of many MIA voices who say the Basin Plan's time is up.

Prominent farmers Rob Houghton, Kel Williams and Helen Dalton; Member for Murray Austin Evans; Griffith Mayor John Dal Broi and Business Chamber president Paul Pierotti, have all said they would support the NSW government’s move to withdraw from the plan.

Mr Houghton, a Gogeldrie grower, said “we're supposed to be working together on this and what the Greens and Labor are doing is just crazy”.

"I think the states have to walk away from this plan. If not, it's all just a sham."

Not the end of MDBP: Egan

Communities along the Macquarie River will suffer as a result of “politicking” around the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, Macquarie River Food and Fibre chairman Michael Egan said.

He said uncertainty would hurt rural communities on the Macquarie River – including Warren, Narromine and Trangie.

“Politics has gone ahead of common sense,” he said.

“If the Northern Basin Review doesn’t go through … it just throws it into chaos.

“The irrigators are probably secondary … it’s the communities that are left behind … the small business people with the cafes, the machinery dealers, all the chemical resellers … they’re the people that suffer.”